Gone are the times when companies employed Manual Testing practices for their app development. Usage of testing tools is a must to survive in this highly competitive market of mobile application development. Imagine the scenario when your startup business needs a mobile application to expand your services. Now you have a development team will write code for you. But the testing tools which they use are extremely important to have an eye on. As it defines how your app will respond on the user’s inputs.
Being a part of the leading App Development Company for iPhone and Android, I will share some of the most important tools which a lot of leading companies use. These tools become handy when you launch your application and are waiting for user feedback's after doing several phases of testing.
If users are experiencing a lot of difficulty in using the application, then you would scratch your brain thinking of the efforts you had done to remove the potential bugs and improve code optimization. Don’t worry, have a look at some of the most sought after tools for your mobile apps.
Best Tools For Testing Your Mobile Applications
1. SonarQube
It is an open platform which allows users to manage the quality of the code of the applications. It is used to track metrics of code and provides messages with inputs to help modify the structure. It is of great help for programmers and mobile app developers as it is used with more than 20 programming languages like C, C++, COBOL, Swift, Erlang through plugins.
With it, you can get bugs and breaches on a daily basis, as soon as it happens. Developer cockpits help a developer to identify their codes. You can install SonarQube on a web server to test android applications. For iOS applications, Sonar Objective –C plug-in is used which is a dedicated community plug-in.
2. Crashlytics
It is a Google-owned company which provides Software Development Kit for crash reporting, online review, application logging and also in the statistical analysis of application logs. It is considered as the lightest crash reporting solution.
The deeper insights that you get while testing iOS and Android apps make you fall in love with it. One more advantage of it is the size which is very small, about 75k-80k all inclusive of code.
It can take up to 5000 crash logs and allows you to fix the issues which you wish to do. Moreover, it can analyze both Android and iOS applications. Its small and lightweight SDK activates with the help of a simple line of code. The SDK opens the cloud solutions that run crash reports with the help of Amazon web services and provide the line of code with the error.
3. Tsung
Tsung is a stress testing tool written in Erlang language and is distributed under GPL license. It can currently stress test HTTP, WebDAV, LDAP, SOAP, MySQL servers. Moreover, it can stimulate hundreds of users on a single dedicated system.
Many Mobile App Development Company considers this testing tool because of various reasons. A single machine can use several IP addresses using OS’s IP Aliasing.HTML reports can be generated as well with this tool to view response time measurements, server CPU and other statistics.
If we talk about other features about this tool, it includes the ability to run on multi-protocols, Load distribution on a cluster of client machines and support of TCP, UDP and IPV both versions. One of the best things I liked about it is the bulletin web dashboard which is used to view statistics in real time during a test.
4. Apache JMeter
The Apache JMeter tool is open source software which is a pure Java application. It is designed to load test functional behavior and analyze performance. Initially, it was designed for testing web applications but now could be used for mobile applications with great expertise.
Some of its features include: The ability to load and do performance testing on many different applications, servers, and protocol types. You can also get a fully featured test IDE which allows fast recording, building and debugging of test plan in browsers and native apps. You also get a dynamic HTML report which could be analyzed.
It allows adding or removing plug-in, generating reports, implementing distributed testing, and can be used for both static and dynamic resources performance testing as well.
5. Keynote Mobile Testing
Keynote lets users test mobile applications in either agile or hybrid agile environments. Its cloud library lets you test your apps on real devices located anywhere in the world. Testing helps developers as its toolkits along with many devices across the world could be used for live testing. That means that a mobile app developer can access any device and carrier in the world.
In a nutshell, it provides free online access to most popular devices for spot testing of mobile websites. You can automate test on a device screen, without requiring any change, the system automatically finds the required buttons or any missing component.
OCR based text and image validations can also be done with this. Also, UI distortions can also be captured in the application which can help you to find out the scope for improvement. Moreover, screenshots could be taken easily along with the ability to make videos.
Final Thoughts
Most of the top mobile app development companies prefer most of the above-mentioned testing tools. Some other tools which are used by some companies include Benchmark, and Apache, Selendroid, Test flight, etc. One needs to understand that app development is a journey full of pains and hard work along with lots of bugs and crashes even after its development.
These tools remove the bugs and help in sorting the issues prior to app launch which improves UX of the application. I would encourage start-up businesses to go with these tools since they are tested tools of top companies.
However, if you are searching for a reliable partner, Fluper is here to help you get your dream app.
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